Lip piercing,
I moved to London when I was 17 to go to uni. The rules in my parents' house had always been 'No tattoos or piercings until you're 18 and no crazy hair colours until you move out, and even then you might not be allowed to move back in.' Fair enough. I'd moved out and was living by myself, so yay.

About 2 weeks after I turned 18 I went to Camden to get my lip pierced. It was fine, I'd wanted it for ages etc. I waited a day to phone my parents, because I knew it wouldn't be easy. I was right.

I spoke to my (usually calm) mother who started crying down the phone saying 'You've really upset me, speak to your dad.'
I could already hear him shouting in the background. He carried on shouting through the phone, telling me that he wouldn't care if I turned into a prostitute in London and that I'd ruined my life by getting my lip pierced and that I'd ruined my whole face and was now ugly.

3 years later, they're used to it. But it's just another example of their over-protective weirdness. I don't think they realise that they're pushing me away by doing this stuff, I still get the 'Your little brother is failing at school because you left home' thing. Ughhh.
(Lalalalou, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:39, 9 replies)

You think you have issues...
My parents wouldn't let me get my ears pierced ever - as "if God wanted you to have holes in your ears he'd have put them there"!
(deadly_sinners, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:48, closed)

Ah yes,
but my parents told me ear piercings are fine, because no-one sees them anyway.

=/
(Lalalalou, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:56, closed)

Of course we have holes in our ears.
Hearing would be damned near impossible without them...
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:56, closed)

I got my cock done when I left home.
My mother didn't want to know much about it when I told her :)
(waxdart hello., Mon 14 Sep 2009, 13:37, closed)

Do you think that we do?
*winces*
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 14 Sep 2009, 13:42, closed)

I think your parents were just trying to protect you from looking like a retard.

(Richard Earl of Cambridge Cruel, Savage, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 13:47, closed)

coming from you
this means nothing.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 0:39, closed)

Maybe they just think that piercings are really ugly.
Which they are.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 14:58, closed)

My Mum freaked
when I had my nose pierced. Mind you she was and still is clinically mentally ill. A the fun times of holding her while she cried, wept or fouled her self.
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 17:12, closed)